Zeidy Zakon
| May 25, 2016
All aboard! Everyone into the jeep. Let’s zoom… zoom… zoom away! Hi kinderlach. We’re going to the place where the Jews fought their last great battle against the Romans. Yay we’re going to Masada! Nope! The final battle happened way after Masada’s fall almost 60 years after the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed.Here we are. What does the sign say? Beitar. Hey I remember learning about Beitar.It was where Bar Kochva fought his last battle on Tishah B’Av. Moshe you’re absolutely right! Have a cookie. In front of us is the modern city of Beitar. It’s built on Bar Kochva’s Beitar.
Today it’s a city full of Torah chesed and yeshivos. I’ll drive slowly kinderlach so you can see the street names we pass. We just passed Igros Moshe Street. There’s Rav Shach Street. Hey the street names are the names on my rebbi cards! Zeidy everyone we’re passing is frum. Is the whole city frum?! Just about including the mayor and the entire city council! Zeidy can we drive up Daf Yomi Street? Hey what about us Sephardim? Don’t we get any street names? You sure do Ovadiah. Everyone hang on I’m making a U-turn.
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